Lord Lucas: My Lords, will my noble friend look at the proposals in the Policy Exchange document No More Tears, which proposes that power should reside in communities such as the one I live in now, at Eastbourne, rather than be handed down from higher authorities?

Lord Greenhalgh: My Lords, I will take a careful look at the No More Tears paper published by Policy Exchange some 14 years ago. I can assure my noble friend that there will be no blanket abolition of districts and that we will take a locally driven approach and ensure that decision-making is taken as close as possible to the people we are serving.

Lord Greenhalgh: My Lords, at this stage we have not made a decision to move the high-risk regime beyond those buildings above 80 metres. As Dame Judith has said, it is those high-rise buildings that have  the greatest risk, and we are attempting to stop the multiple fatalities that we saw at Grenfell. That is where we will focus our efforts.